doom

[doom]

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noun

fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.

ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.

a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.

the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.

Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.

verb (used with object)

to destine, especially to an adverse fate.

to pronounce judgment against; condemn.

to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.

Origin of doom

before 900; Middle English dome, dōm, Old English dōm judgment, law; cognate with Old Norse dōmr, Gothic dōms; compare Sanskrit dhā́man, Greek thémis law; see do¹, deem

Related formsdoom·y, adjectivepre·doom, verb (used with object)self-doomed, adjective

Synonyms for doom

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1. See fate. 3. condemnation. 6. predestine.

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Related Words for doomed

ill-fated, wrecked, cursed, done, overwhelmed, fated, destroyed, unfortunate, reprobate, threatened, lost, ruined, undone, bewitched, damned, sunk, convicted, predestined, foreordained, menaced

Examples from the Web for doomed

Contemporary Examples of doomed

Trying to fine-tune all that to a desired end is not only a form of madness but doomed to failure.
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Nick Gillespie
December 18, 2014
Has she been doomed by the science of 2014 to a life of sexual misery?
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December 6, 2014
Imagine if you were doomed forever to live inside a youthful mistake.
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November 10, 2014
The Arab spring failed, but it demonstrated the ancient regimes are doomed unless they change profoundly, which is very unlikely.
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Bruce Riedel
November 9, 2014
Handing the job to the less qualified team, after Northrop and Grumman refused to sign a fixed-price contract, doomed the program.
Is the Pentagon’s $55 Billion Stealth Bomber Too Big a Secret?
Bill Sweetman
September 22, 2014

Historical Examples of doomed

They might only be cruelly holding out hope to one of the doomed.
The Armourer's Prentices
Charlotte M. Yonge
We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches
Various
But there, as well as in the House, the Irish Establishment was doomed.
The Grand Old Man
Richard B. Cook
In the hour of triumph the government was doomed to receive a stunning blow.
The Grand Old Man
Richard B. Cook
It seemed too bright for a thing formed of dust, and doomed to crumble into dust again.
Sylph Etherege
Nathaniel Hawthorne

British Dictionary definitions for doomed

doom

noun

death or a terrible fate

a judgment or decision

(sometimes capital) another term for the Last Judgment

verb

(tr) to destine or condemn to death or a terrible fate

Word Origin for doom

Old English dōm; related to Old Norse dōmr judgment, Gothic dōms sentence, Old High German tuom condition, Greek thomos crowd, Sanskrit dhāman custom; see do 1, deem, deed, -dom

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Word Origin and History for doomed

doom

Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention"), literally "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.

doom

late 14c., from doom (n.). Related: Doomed; dooming.